Tag: Lived
Faith Lived Out Loud at The Gathering
One of the many ways we live out our faith in action is through volunteering. There are many different ways that this can be done through the Gathering and what better place to do it than in New Orleans with thousands of your best friends! Check out the Gathering’s website for more information on how to get involved as a volunteer. Learn how Anna went from being participant to volunteer and what that experience has meant to her— Hello! My name is Anna Thompson and I attended the 2009 Gathering in New Orleans as a youth participant. That was the…
The Classically Calvinist God: A Dissonance Between its Philosophical Buttress and its Lived and Preached Piety
As I have been wont to say many times in the past: ‘who we think God is determines everything else following.’ In North America, and in my closest experience, John MacArthur, Paul Washer and their respective acolytes, illustrate this quite readily. John MacArthur and Paul Washer, both self-styled 5 Point Calvinists, maintain that God is a singular monad, an actus purus, a pure being who has been appropriated by the Christian God of revelation, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The result of thinking and speaking God this way, for MacArthur, Washer, and all else, no matter what interpretive tradition…